Nelson- Hospitals

Inadequate NHS diabetes care causing patients harm

NHS diabetes care is inadequate and some patients come to further harm due to poor care in hospital a leading specialist says Dr Gerry Rayman national clinical lead for inpatient diabetes warned many hospitals had no specialist diabetes nurse He said many hospital patients had diabetes and called the situation quite alarming The Department... Read More

Support Groups A Lifeline for People in the Early Stages of Alzheimers Disease

quotIt was like opening the door to a sunlit roomquot says a member of Phyllis Dycks support group recalling the first time she attended a meeting for people in the early stages of Alzheimers disease Never before had she been with other people who understood what it was like to live with the disease Caregiver support groups have been around for ... Read More